If you want to install MySQLdb for Python 2.x, without using the package manager of your Linux distro (Ubuntu in our case), you can do it through pip like this:
First you must to have installed libmysqlclient-dev (and, of course pip)
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
After that execute this two commands:
sudo easy_install -U distribute sudo pip install mysql-python
Test if is working:
Type in the command line:
python
and in the python console:
import MySQLdb help(MySQLdb)
That’s all. Enjoy!